Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver . |
| 32 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 33 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 34 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 35 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 36 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 37 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 38 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 39 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 40 | Buzz remembered Nurse Evans , who 'd been with Nell in Ward C at La Chapelle ; after the war , Evans had worked in one of those rich bins before she 'd married a Lutheran minister and gone to live in Scotland . |
| 41 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 42 | David Harper , from Uckington , no relation to the twins , who 'd been with Rebecca , and Wisdom Smith , who was with Emma , both told the police they 'd jumped from bales of blazing straw . |
| 43 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 44 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 45 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 46 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 47 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 48 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 49 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 50 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 51 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 52 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 53 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 54 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 55 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 56 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 57 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 58 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 59 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 60 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |